Located in Toms River, NJ 530 acre Cattus Island is a part of the Ocean County Park system. In the heart of the “Jersey Shore” Cattus Island offers a variety of ecosystems including maritime upland pine/oak forest, salt marsh, and freshwater wetlands. Cattus Island Park plays home to a multitude of plant and wildlife and [...]
Silhouettes are sort of the reverse of most other techniques used to make your subject singled out in that usually your subject becomes the darkest part of the photograph. I feel this method explores more of the shape of the main subject than anything else. A silhouette proudly shows the outline of the main subject [...]
I’ve previously written an entire series about color in nature photography but this time I’m going to concentrate on using color to make your subject stand out. For the most part color in nature isn’t something we can control. As a photographer all you can do is observe it and capture it, which can make [...]
I know I know, fences aren’t exactly nature or wildlife related but they do exist in some beautifully scenic areas and can actually enhance a photograph some of the time. For me as a photographer a fence can be a blessing or a curse. There have certainly been times when there is a naturally beautiful [...]
Red: bright, vibrant, powerful, and eye-catching. Those are just some of the descriptive words that come to mind when viewing something red. Red can paint an entire sky during a sunrise or sunset or make a tiny bird stand out like, well, a bright red bird in a green tree. During the fall color change [...]
Let’s brighten things up this time, enough with the black, time to move on to orange. Orange is another abundant color in nature, especially during the fall months in many areas of the world. If it’s not too cloudy you can start and end each day with some orange during sunrise and sunset, usually some [...]
Back in July of 2008 my now fiance and I took a trip to Bar Harbor Maine to relax and take in the beautiful scenery. One evening as we traveled up to the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park just before sunset we could tell it was going to be incredible. As we [...]
My son Ray has already done a post on this but I will add a little more. We took our camper and stayed at the Elk Neck State campground so we wouldn’t have as long to get to the Conowingo Dam. This is a great campground to stay in if you are visiting the area [...]
I figured this post somewhat appropriate for the time of year with the creepy spider web covered bald cypress trees that were visible early one morning. I went camping with my family at Trap Pond State Park in Delaware a few weeks ago and my father and I were out on the lake in our [...]
I’ll be trying to post a small collection of images that can be found in the Natures Domain catalog with a common theme every once in a while. Today’s theme is black and white and duo-tone landscapes. All the following images are available for purchase in one of the landscape gallery . Stop back every [...]
Welcome to the Nature’s Domain Blog. I’m Ray Hennessy and I’ve started Nature’s Domain along with my father to try to create one place for people interested in purchasing nature related photography. We have an archive of stock photography that anyone can browse or search to purchase nature images for commercial and personal use. Commercial [...]
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